Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every. Every week he explores the frontiers of AI in his column, Chain of Thought, and on his podcast, ‘AI & I.’

Oct 19, 2020

Action Item: Playing Offense, The 10-10-10 Test, and Blending

Amanda Goetz, VP of Marketing at The Knot, shares her routines for managing a day job, a startup, and three kids.

Feb 12, 2023

Bonus: Chatbot Sample Code and Metrics Updates

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Sep 25, 2020

#30 - Giving your brain novelty, for fun and profit

Nathan interviews Dan about his latest Superorganizers article, “Dopamine Stacking.” Why are we always compelled to try new tools, which of

Oct 7, 2020

#33 - How to use Spatial Organizing

Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin

Aug 7, 2020

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Dec 19, 2019

The Man Who Reads 1,000 Articles a Day

How Robert Cottrell finds the absolute best writing on the web

Nov 27, 2024

How We Incubate and Launch New Products With AI

What happens when you mix media, software, and AI—and how it’s going so far

Oct 30, 2024

How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital

Inside Matt Cynamon’s suite of custom AI tools for the tier-A firm

Feb 3, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Deep Research—Here’s What We Found

Vibe check: It’s awesome.

Dec 10, 2020

#48 - Consumable Software

Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m

Nov 2, 2020

#41 - A Bad Situation…Compounded

Special Emergency Pod! We invited our friend Mario Gabriele on the show to talk about his experience this week publicly staring down a $6 b

Sep 11, 2020

#27 - How can we give the Bundle Digest its own identity?

Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe

Jan 8, 2023

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Jun 7, 2020

#0: The story of how we met (start here!)

Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.

Jul 24, 2020

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Oct 3, 2021

NFTs are MLMs, How to Pick Your Initial Market, and More

Everything we published this week

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Aug 28, 2024

The Browser Company Is Building a Brand That Drives Viral Growth

Head of storytelling Nashilu Mouen-Makoua on how to tell memorable stories

Aug 12, 2020

#19 - What should we do with our weekly digest?

Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t

Aug 14, 2020

#20 - Couples therapy ft. executive coach Brian Wang

Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti

Feb 9, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

Apr 24, 2024

He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions

Alan Cowen on the world’s first AI that can interpret and respond to human feelings